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An Epiblast Stem Cell Derived Multipotent Progenitor Population bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/242461; this version posted May 18, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-ND 4.0 International license. An Epiblast Stem Cell derived multipotent progenitor population for axial extension Shlomit Edri1, Penny Hayward, Peter Baillie-Johnson, Benjamin Steventon and Alfonso Martinez Arias1 Department of Genetics Downing Site University of Cambridge Cambridge, CB2 3EH UK 1. Authors for correspondence Shlomit Edri: [email protected] Alfonso Martinez Arias: [email protected] Abstract The Caudal Lateral Epiblast of mammalian embryos harbours bipotent progenitors that contribute to the spinal cord and the paraxial mesoderm in concert with the elongation of the body axis. These progenitors, called Neural Mesodermal Progenitors (NMPs) are identified as cells coexpressing Sox2 and T/Brachyury, a criterion used to derive NMP- like cells from Embryonic Stem Cells in vitro. However, these progenitors do not self renew, as embryonic NMPs do. Here we find that protocols that yield NMP-like cells in vitro first produce a multipotent population that, additional to NMPs, generates progenitors for the lateral plate and intermediate mesoderm. We show that Epiblast Stem Cells (EpiSCs) are an effective source for these multipotent progenitors that are further differentiated by a balance between BMP and Nodal signalling. Importantly, we show that NMP-like cells derived from EpiSCs self renew in vitro and exhibit a gene expression signature similar to that of their embryo counterparts. bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/242461; this version posted May 18, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-ND 4.0 International license. Introduction The anteroposterior axis of a vertebrate can be subdivided into three anatomically distinct regions: the head, the trunk and the tail. The trunk starts at the end of the hindbrain, runs to the anus and comprises derivatives of the mesoderm and the ectoderm such as the thoracic cage, muscles, kidneys and spinal cord. The thoracic tract has different origins in different organisms: in anamniotes e.g. fish and frogs, it is inferred to arise during gastrulation from a pool of pre-existing cells within the ectoderm, while in amniotes e.g. chickens and mice, it is derived from the expansion of the Caudal Epiblast (CE), a proliferative region located at the caudal end of the embryo, where the primitive streak persists, that acts as a source for paraxial, intermediate and lateral plate mesoderm as well as for the spinal cord (Henrique et al., 2015; Stern, 2005; Steventon and Martinez Arias, 2017; Sweetman et al., 2008; Wilson et al., 2009). Lineage tracing studies have shown that the CE harbours a population of bipotential progenitors located behind the node, at the Node Streak Border (NSB) and extending laterally into the Caudal Lateral Epiblast (CLE), that give rise to neural and mesodermal precursors. These cells have been called Neural Mesodermal Progenitors (NMPs), are often characterized by simultaneous expression of T (also known as Bra) and Sox2 (Cambray and Wilson, 2007; Wymeersch et al., 2016) and are capable of limited self renewal (Cambray and Wilson, 2002; McGrew et al., 2008; Tzouanacou et al., 2009). Recently a few studies have claimed the generation of NMP-like cells in adherent cultures of mouse and human embryonic Pluripotent Stem Cells (PSCs) (Gouti et al., 2014; Lippmann et al., 2015; Turner et al., 2014). In these studies, Embryonic Stem Cells (ESCs) are coaxed into a transient T and Sox2 coexpressing state that, depending on the culture conditions, can be differentiated into either paraxial mesoderm or spinal cord progenitors and their derivatives. However, there is no evidence that these NMP- like cells are propagated in vitro as they are in the embryo (Tsakiridis and Wilson, 2015). Furthermore, coexpression of T and Sox2 might not be a unique characteristic of NMPs as it is also a signature of Epiblast Stem Cells (EpiSCs) (Kojima et al., 2014) which are pluripotent and this does not imply that EpiSCs are NMPs. While other markers have been used to refine the molecular identity of NMPs in vitro e.g. Nkx1-2, Cdx2, Cdh1 and Oct4, these are also expressed in the epiblast and in the primitive streak during gastrulation (see Supplementary section 1-2 and Fig. S1), emphasizing the notion that these gene expression signatures are not uniquely associated with NMPs. Altogether these observations raise questions about the identity of the T - Sox2 coexpressing cells derived from ESCs and about the signature of the NMPs. Here, we show that T - Sox2 coexpressing cells derived from ESCs and EpiSCs based differentiation protocols display differences at the level of gene expression and represent different developmental stages of the transition between naïve, primed pluripotency and neuro-mesodermal fate choices. Furthermore, we find that, in adherent culture, all available protocols generate a multipotent population where in addition to an NMP signature we find also signatures for Lateral Plate and Intermediate Mesoderm (LPM and IM) as well as the allantois. We report a new protocol, based on EpiSCs, that sequentially generates the multipotent population and an NMP-like population with many of the attributes of the embryonic NMPs. In particular these cells exhibit an ability to self renew in vitro and to contribute to posterior neural and mesodermal regions of the embryonic body in a xenotransplant assays. Our study leads us to propose that, in vitro and in vivo, NMPs are derived from a multipotent population that emerges in the epiblast at the end of gastrulation and gives rise not only to the elements of the spinal cord and paraxial mesoderm but all elements of the trunk mesoderm. Our study also provides a culture system for the establishment of a self renewing NMP-like population in vitro. bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/242461; this version posted May 18, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-ND 4.0 International license. Results EpiSCs yield a postimplantation epiblast population that resembles the CLE Several protocols allow the differentiation of ESCs into an NMP-like population, defined as cells that coexpress T and Sox2, that can be further differentiated into neural and mesodermal progenitors (summarized in (Henrique et al., 2015)). However, it is not clear whether these NMP-like cells derived through different protocols are similar to each other and, importantly, how each relates to the NMPs in the embryo. To begin to answer these questions we compared NMP-like cells obtained from three different protocols: ES- NMPs (Turner et al., 2014) and ES-NMPFs (Gouti et al., 2014), derived from ESCs, as well as Epi-NMPs, derived from a new protocol that we have developed from EpiSCs (Fig. 1a; see Methods). All protocols yield cells coexpressing T and Sox2 at the level of both the mRNA and protein (Fig. 1b and Supplementary Fig. S2), but differ in the levels and degree of correlated expression of the two genes (Fig. 1b and Supplementary Fig. S2b) and the Epi-NMP population has a highest number of T - Sox2 positive cells in a transcriptional stable state (as defined by a low variance of T and Sox2) in comparison to the other conditions (Supplementary Fig. S2b). bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/242461; this version posted May 18, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-ND 4.0 International license. Fig 1. Comparison between in vitro protocols to produce NMP-like cells a. Diagram of the protocols: ES-NMP (Turner et al., 2014) ES-NMPF (Gouti et al., 2014) and Epi-NMP (see Methods). b. images, obtained by using single molecule fluorescence in-situ hybridization (sm-FISH), of cells expressing Sox2 (in green) and T (in magenta) mRNA in different conditions: ES-NMP, EpiXAV, EpiXAV-NMP and Epi-NMP. The insets are zoom in on cells coexpressing Sox2 and T. Quantification plot of the number of mRNA molecules in a cell in the different conditions can be found underneath the images. Each dot represents a cell where the x-axis and y-axis represent the number of Sox2 and T molecules respectively in a cell. The Spearman coefficient correlation between Sox2 and T, the P- value and the total number of cells, noted as ρ, P-value and n respectively, can be found as an inset in the quantification plot. c. Confocal images of ES-NMP, ES-NMPF and Epi-NMP on their 3rd day. Nuclei (Hoechst in grey), Cdh1 (yellow) and Cdh2 (cyan) (see Methods). To characterize the different NMP-like populations further, we investigated the expression of several genes associated with the epiblast, the CE and the NSB/CLE bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/242461; this version posted May 18, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-ND 4.0 International license. region, where NMPs are thought to reside, between stages E7.0 and E8.5 (see Supplementary sections 1-2 and Fig.
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